Entries Tagged ‘Teaching English’:

Week 3 in Venezuela: Living it up on Isla Margerita!

Hola from a gap year in sunny Venezuela, The team are happy and healthy, now into their 3rd week on the beach at Playa Colorado in Venezuela. Yesterday the final Leaper Sarah showed up and after recovering from her flight the team will be quitting the coast and heading for the hills to spend time [...]

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News from the Venezuela Summer Team:

Hello from the coast of Sunny Venezuela! After recovering from the jet-lag we were thrown straight into Project One, marine conservation. We kayaked out to La Piscina and Playa Melissa to start our beach clean up. The journey out to the islands was pretty tough and we suffered some serious arm ache afterwards…Paula and Emily [...]

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Borneo Team Blog- Waterfalls, Weddings and an introduction to Rice Wine!

Hello from Borneo! The leapers had a great time on their first week in country getting themselves adapted to the new (very hot!) environment, the culture and the community at Kipouvo homestay. Their first week included learning basic Bahasa Malaysia, they learned how to play gongs and the local Dusun traditional rice wine making, had [...]

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Borneo Summer Team Update

Greetings from Borneo! The arrivals of the July leapers few weeks ago was welcomed with much excitement by the communities and staff of Camp Borneo as always. Everyone is good and happy. Over the past few weeks the Leapers have been working really hard and got themselves stuck in with our Kindergarten foundation project in [...]

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Borneo Team Update (5): Jan ’10

Hello from sun drenched Borneo! All is well here despite the long weekend we had following the tsunami alert! Thankfully it never materialized so no damage has been done. The Leapers have come to their 8th week in Borneo and what a place to be stuck in a tropical island paradise like Mantanani Island! All [...]

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Volunteering Changed my Life!

Hello! My name is Jenny Amy, I went on the September 2009 Leap to Kenya and had the most incredible time.  It was, without a doubt, the most amazing experience I have had and one that will never be forgotten!  The variety of volunteer projects my group took part in made the whole thing so [...]

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Halfway through our Cambodia Gap Year

Hello Again from sunny Cambodia! Not really sure where to start …. ! It’s all a bit surreal in Phnom Penh, all of a sudden we have been taken out of our comfort zone and routine in Siem Reap and we are in the big city. This week has been a real eye opener and [...]

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